Watchdog Report Vol.22 No.27 June 19, 2022-EST:05.05.00-I go when you cannot, for 22-years of free publishing
>>> I was wrong when I thought the WDR was good for another year, as contributions have been few and far between and with inflation raging supporters are, I am sure hurting in this treacherous financial time. I will keep you posted in the future but after 22-years and major political changes the need for public institutions to be watched has never been more critical if we want good governance and public money being wisely spent. I also wish all the fathers a Happy Father’s Day!
Further, I will be having a surgery on Friday by Dr. Jorge Rabaza at South Miami Hospital, part of Baptist Health South Florida. And the physician saved my life in 2009 when I was septic and a “flip of the coin,” if I survived.
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST
>>> Probable last Joint Meeting with CEO Migoya the PHT & BCC, as Migoya retires, and VP Steigman appointed successor, board Chair Heffernan also termed out new officer’s elections June 29th , seasoned board has done great job in oversight of GOB spending on time under budget had mentor program for minority contracts.
The annual Joint Meeting of The Public Health Trust was Tuesday at the BCC. The meeting will probable be the last for long serving CEO Carlos Migoya who is retiring in the early summer and his successor will be well respected VP Don Steigman, who has been a critical team member for Migoya. Migoya, now a grandfather, told county commissioners that it has been a tough 80017 days since the first Covid patient few years after Covid and clinical staff are exhausted( and self-care mental health programs are in place,) and the largest public health system in the N.E. in the nation has 13,000 vacancies and after 10-years of a surplus that achievement was broken given “increased wages,” and the state cutting funding by $71 million to hospitals like Jackson Health System.
He reviewed the transformation of the system thanks to county voters approving a $830 million GOB that was leveraged to a $2 billion capital plan that updated seven hospitals and urgent care facilities, from Doral to Coral Gables and has a 98 percent patient satisfaction. He noted more needs to be done including a $500 million new emergency room at the primary campus built in the 1970s and needs a major update with over 100,000 patient visits a year, he said.
What about the school board budget workshop Wednesday?
>>> School board workshop documents show $17 million for security cameras, but zero spent for critical school safety measures
The school board had its first 2022-2023 budget workshop untelevised and I did not attend since, every time I have gone to such meetings some staff hassle me and I will be at Wednesday’s board meeting. However, I reviewed the workshop’s documents and one number jumped out $17 million was budgeted for 360-degree security cameras, but none of that money has been spent state the documents and to see the report go to:
http://pdfs.dadeschools.net/Bdarch/2022/bd061522/budget-workshop-presentation.pdf
Candidates for a host of offices are running political ads and citizens need to carefully review the candidates for the county and school board and judiciary. To see the candidates go to: https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?c=miamidade&c=miamidade
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
>>>> Press release: Summary of the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics & Public Trust Meeting Held on June 8, 2022
The Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust held a public meeting on June 8, 2022. The following actions took place:
Magnum Construction Management (MCM) Vice President Stipulates to Probable Cause Finding
C 22-25-05: Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Magnum Construction Management (MCM), Laura Munilla, stipulated to a finding of Probable Cause and entered into a settlement agreement for violating the Lobbying section of the Miami-Dade County Conflict of Interest and Code of Ethics Ordinance. Ms. Munilla will be issued a Letter of Instruction and will be required to pay a fine in the amount of $500.
A COE investigation revealed that Ms. Munilla was not registered as a lobbyist when she sent an email to Commissioner Eileen Higgins in which she discussed issues regarding a solicitation or contract that required approval of the Board of County Commissioners.
Letter of Reprimand Ratified in Case Involving Opa-Locka Assistant City Manager
C 22-04-02: The Ethics Commission ratified a Letter of Reprimand for City of Opa-Locka Assistant City Manager George Ellis Jr. who previously stipulated to a finding of probable cause and entered into a settlement agreement for violating the Exploitation of Official Position section of the Miami-Dade County Conflict of Interest and Code of Ethics Ordinance.
Letters of Instruction Ratified in Cases Involving Small Business Owners
C 22-24-05, C 22-26-05, C 22-27-05: The Ethics Commission ratified Letters of Instruction for three small business owners. The COE previously found Probable Cause that these small business owners failed to register as lobbyists, a violation of the Lobbying section of the Miami-Dade County Conflict of Interest and Code of Ethics Ordinance.
Ethics Commission Briefed on Amendments to the County Ethics Code
COE Executive Director Jose Arrojo briefed the Ethics Commission on amendments to the County Ethics Code revising the definition of “immediate family” to include siblings of the covered person and revising the ability of County employees to solicit gifts for the County to require authorization by the County Commissioners, the Mayor, the Mayor’s Chiefs, or Department heads.
Complaints Filed Against City of Opa-Locka Mayor and Commissioners Found Not Legally Sufficient C 22-17-04, C 22-18-04, C 22-19-04: Complaints filed against City of Opa-Locka Mayor Veronica Williams, Commissioner Chris Davis, and Sherelean Bass were found to be Not Legally Sufficient and dismissed. The first complaint alleged that Mayor Williams exploited her official position and was unprofessional when she interfered with a landlord-tenant dispute involving the mayor’s sister.
The second complaint alleged that Commissioner Davis acted in a disrespectful and unprofessional manner towards the citizens of Opa-Locka.The third complaint alleged that Commissioner Bass misused her authority by asking the City Manager to get a city official to pressure clean a school and also by visiting the Mayor’s house before every Commission meeting in violation of the Sunshine Law. All three complaints were filed by the same City of Opa-Locka citizen.
Complaints Filed by Former Opa-Locka City Manager Against Vice Mayor and Commissioner Found Not Legally Sufficient 22-20-04, C 22-21-04:
Complaints filed by former Opa-Locka City Manager John Pate against Opa-Locka Vice Mayor John Taylor and Commissioner Sherelean Bass were found to be Not Legally Sufficient and dismissed. The first complaint alleged that Vice Mayor Taylor exploited his official position by scheduling a commission meeting to fire Mr. Pate because Pate did not “condone and/or cover up the misconduct of the Respondent Vice Mayor’s brother. “The second complaint alleged that Commissioner Bass exploited her official position by voting against reinstating the previously fired City Manager (Pate) for Pate’s refusal to allocate Opa-Locka funding toward a project involving land “deeded to Darvin Williams.”
Complaint Filed Against Town of Bay Harbor Islands Councilmember Found Not Legally Sufficient 22-22-05:
A complaint filed against Town of Bay Harbor Island Councilmember Isaac Salver was found to be Not Legally Sufficient and was dismissed. The complaint alleged that Councilmember Salver violated the Truth in Government provision of the Citizens’ Bill of Rights when he made “injurious” and “harmful” statements directed at a Bay Harbor Islands citizen.
>>> Re do, because so important: The heavy rains are a “wake-up call,” to Miami-Dade, said Mayor Levine-Cava Friday, and is an answer in front of our nose? With scavenger vessel, resuscitating Biscayne Bay, working only 40-hours a week with only one vessel, picks up gas drums, and other garbage, while oxygenating the bay, is a technology marvel that should be expanded
The Biscayne Bay Watershed Management Advisory Board members, Friday saw a video on the propriety vessel the scavenger, which cleans and infuses oxygen into the bay after the extensive fish kills and the bay is at a tipping point and is a major economic generator.
There is only one vessel being used only 40-hours per week because limited funding from the county and the city of Miami. However, more funding and another vessel costing $1.5 million is needed and could be a substantial solution to helping the bay back to health. I have taken a interest in the bay since 2000, after I was asked by Capt. Miller, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers. If I knew anyone that could contact U.S.Rep. Bill Young, chair of the House appropriations committee. And by accident at a luncheon, I heard someone talking about the man and playing golf with him. The congressman was approached on a green about funding the dredging of the Miami River, and with the help of Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtonen -Miami. The first $8 million in funding was included in the upcoming federal budget, which was later assisted by state, federal, and local funding.
For more on the scavenger go to: https://scavengervessel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/city_of_miami_report.pdf and
>>> To see the damage to the bay go to https://www.miamichamber.com/news/pollution-killing-biscayne-bay-theres-very-little-time-save-it-and-its-going-cost-lot-moneyhttps://www.miamichamber.com/news/pollution-killing-biscayne-bay-theres-very-little-time-save-it-and-its-going-cost-lot-money
Here is a national story on me and the reporter spent a month riding with me in 2002: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html
>>> Reiner Diaz de la Portilla is running to be judge in Group 5 of the circuit court. The man recently lost a bid to be a county commissioner, but the man has been a perennial candidate over the years.
Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust
>>> Rentals needed at county’s homeless trust, has 700 HUD housing vouchers, Oprah Winfrey interested in Chapman Partnership’s work, says CEO Hudson
Oprah Winfrey has approached The Chapman Partnership for Homeless, since the homeless population in places like L.A., SF, have risen, to incredible levels never seen, said Chapman CEO Symoria T. Hudson, to the trust.
The trust has been under financial strain, and with immigrants flooding the southern border and many coming to Miami immigration funding is up 7 percent and can’t be sustained. Further the trust needs new rental units and has 700 housing vouchers that are paid directly to landlords including first and last deposits said trust staff. With state funding ending, the trust is stretched for funding as an immigration surge is anticipated until the nation up-dates its laws with many coming to Miami given our demographics. Further, food and bed taxes are up finally by 40 percent with a $19.8 million collection rate in April.
CITY OF MIAMI
>>> Suarez still not answering who gave him valuable courtside tickets, to Miami Heat playoff games, not launch codes, diminishes good government reputation as muse Eddy Leal, when asked bolts out of city hall Tuesday.
Mayor Francis Suarez, not responding where he got $25,000 courtside basketball tickets, is a secret that media staff will not answer, including mayor’s muse Eddy Leal who ran out the door at city hall Tuesday. The media is not asking for launch codes, and further damages. The young mayor’s good government reputation, especially for higher office and is ignored by the county’s ethics commission. A body losing its luster for its tepid performance and rulings over the recent years.
>>> May 5th was the WDR’s 22-year anniversary, and I never thought back then that I would reach such a milestone, and thanks to community support, I achieved that, and I thank my supporters from the bottom of my heart.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
>>> Dotres’ decision to hire wife, ends Golden era of Past Carvalho, who would have never, done such a, neg. public confidence act, brings back the 2090’s nepotism rampant back then, caused creation of school’s ethics commission, and IG.
In one decision. New Superintendent Dr. Jose Dotres ends the work to bring confidence and performance to the nation’s fourth largest public schools district, with the attempt to hire his educator wife for a new position, on conservation and resilience duties. Dotres by doing this shocking move and the nine-member board agreeing with it to keep the newly appointed man secure in his decision-making process and showing board support after the dynamic Alberto Carvalho, who directed all monies to the human capital. Instead Dotres, just wants to pad his retirement benefits since he only has a three-year contract and then can retire quite comfortable with this arrangement which is not an ethics violation since she will report to another senior cabinet member.
Further, the man is a low -energy person and seems to be just a caretaker, versus Carvalho’s high energy style. That has long term Chair Perla Tabares Hantman leaving the board since 2096.
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>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
What about Lotus Village?
The nation’s premier social service agency that assists families and women with children is doing an expansion called The Children’s Village. The organization founded by Constance Collin’s with her own money after she saw a need for women’s social services that were being unmet in Miami-Dade and it has been a huge success, for the women. She is also on the county’s Homeless Trust and is a solid provider of these important social services allowing women and children to get back on their feet. For more on the expansion and a look at the project click the link. https://lotushouse.org/lotus-village-a-miami-homeless-shelter-that-feels-like-home-set-for-ambitious-expansion/?msclkid=12ae3ebeceee11ec89415ac1e34cd820
What about the city of Miami’s mid-year budget?
The city’s budget director said the municipality had a $18 million surplus, but only $1.7 million in the fund balance. The city has been riding high given all the federal funding after Covid and its economic impact, to fill budget gaps, for a host of services during the pandemic.
>>> What about the county commission’s discussion on creating a new constitutional Sheriff’s office like the 57 others in Florida, and the problems it can create are showcased in Broward County where Tony Gregory is facing strong criticism of his office with the nine county commissioners.
Creating a constitutional Sheriff’s office approved statewide by voters in the constitution, which was abolished when corrupt sheriff Jim Sullivan was dissolved, by a senate investigation on racketeering in south Florida, is extremely complex, and is called “the ultimate incorporation,” said Jennifer Moon, the former county budget director now working for the commission. The very competent women is a budget guru and understands. The 84 different revenue streams that make up the county’s $1billion budget, and what challenges these new offices bring like the county’s debt, and interest payments.
>>> What about The Miami Herald’s 23rd Pulitzer Prize for Champlain Towers South condo collapse coverage and 97 deaths.?
The Pulitzer Prize, the top journalistic award was given to The Herald’s newsroom for all the in-depth coverage and revelations and should remind the public how the paper informs the community as a whole and is a critical center board, to public institutions doing the right thing. Further, the reporters with Joey Flechas,” being the first on the scene, should get a tip of hat, along with the dedicated newsroom that needs the community’s support in the tough printed media market.
EDITORIAL
I was deeply disturbed by someone at the U.S. Supreme Court, leaking a draft paper on the controversial Roe. v. Wade decision. The court was the last public institution, versus the house and senate that have both suffered, confidence by the nation.
The court draft while igniting a firestorm with the public protesting even in front of the jurists’ homes, is a scary situation. The court has been the touchstone of the nation, as it deliberates the nations laws, non-political, in its long history and landmark cases. But this leak is corrosive to justice being blind and has tainted the court’s reputation by the very divided public.
>>>> What about the new Florida Education Secretary state Sen. Manny Diaz, Jr., appointed by the governor last week?
For some reason, the senator’s financial disclosure form is not online at the Florida ethics commission which is very odd given his years in office( and the webpage is not showing disclosures for others and may be worked on; Here is the webpage to search financial disclosure forms with the state. http://public.ethics.state.fl.us/results.cfm
Diaz is a big supporter of charter schools and Gov. Ron De Santos. The former educator has had an extensive political career and he once ran for the Miami-Dade public schools board losing to board chair Perla Tabares Hantman years ago and may be why she is not seeking reelection in 2022.
What about Jackson Health, system?
The public health trust board met recently and the figures for March were below what was budgeted but it is hoped to be made up with the increasing billings and sales tax revenues, which has the employees of the public system exhausted.
After two years of the pandemic and has Chief medical officer Dr. Peter Paige is leaving for New England after five years in the position. The man preferred the “clinical side to the board room,” said trust chair William Heffernan in his remarks. Further, the trust raised $4 million at its yearly gala and included $500,000 donated by tech maven Manny Medina. CEO Carlos Migoya also highlighted the effective use of a protégé program to train minority contractors, that more evenly divided the bond revenue throughout the county firms over the past 10-years that projects were being built including the incredible Jackson West hospital in Doral.
>>>> County public schools, facing under-enrollment crisis, and FTE funding that comes with full enrollment,117 charter schools make it a bigger challenge, board members may “knock on doors,” if they must.
The Miami-Dade County Public Schools have an enrollment problem after the years of Covid and the 490-public schools dealing with the pandemic, when federal funding is coming to an end. But the under-enrollment district wide will have devastating results and the board discussed this little publicized fact. A district with no F schools but 117charter schools will see funding gaps at the present enrollment rate that may have some board members knocking on “people’s doors,” trying to recruit students to the newly refurbished public schools after a massive bond program is coming to an end.
>>> Miami mayor genuflects to Crypto currency, Mayor Suarez, takes city salary in the currency a Fox interviewer states in interview with the young possible wunderkind mayor, as currency meeting held on Miami Beach that includes a replica of the Wall Street Bull, but is all the hype for real the million-dollar question, on the get quick rich boom or bust technology,
And includes a host of high-profile investors bullish on the currency that has critiques suggesting it could all be a scam and people need to see the video “Chasing Madoff,” for government is usually late when it comes to new technologies and enforcement even after a whistleblower testified for years about the convicted fraudster.
>>> Jackson hit with $71 million in state funding cut, despite improved performance of the public health care system, opens 5 new pediatric emergency rooms including Jackson South
The state was not kind to a reformed Jackson Health System when it came to funding public hospitals and JHS is facing a $71 million hit in reduced state funding. Despite the public health facility working better than 1997 and was under severe criticism by skeptical state legislators, and has since turned around having some 11-years of operating in the black and finishing a 2013 bond offering coming to an end that has transformed the public health system, that had a reputation that Jackson was “where the poor would go to die,” and that is no longer the case with the new facilities and a strong relationship with the University of Miami Miller Medical School for advanced medical services.
At Wednesdays trust board meeting CEO Carlos Migoya said that while sales tax revenues recently down have come back “strong,” that revenue is offset by higher staff costs, noting that PPP funding that covered some of the pandemics increased costs that funding is ending and why the cut in state funding is so harmful to the public hospitals mission of equal medical care for all. The trust also produced internally a 30-second ad, at no cost),spot thanking the community for approving the bond and the transformation is seen around Miami-Dade County, on time and on budget which is remarkable for the public institution that many have seen major overruns of such bond projects and was a pleasant surprise and Migoya and his team deserves a tip of the hat for the accomplishment
>>> Past WDR: Mysterious Crypto Currency task Force, at county approves draft report to county commissioners, is this speculative technology a moral hazard to speculators looking for quick riches, with Miami becoming the crypto capital as well as Medicare fraud capital of nation as well, with are history where will this technology take all of us.
The Miami-Dade County crypto task force has issued its draft report when it passed Wednesday. The task force created by county commissioner Eileen Higgins has been hard at work to explain the role of the currency in Miami known as the “crypto capital,” in the world. But most people do not understand it and the worry is people investing are taking a gamble not knowing the odds. I have been wondering what the moral hazard is regarding investing in NFT’s.
Further task force members said 7 adult school sites in the public school system
are teaching a primer course at a cost of $5.00 using educators and volunteers as advisors on the curriculum.
The group also wants to get sponsors to reduce the cost of going to Miami Tech Week month in Miami and www.blockchain.com is expected to come to Miami in “mid-April,” said chair Elijah Bowdre. The volunteer group also wants media to create special sections for crypto currency news. The board’s draft plan is now set to go to the county commission for their review, and the board sunsets May 5th and the commission must reauthorize it.
That had Commissioner Manolo Reyes trying to tamp down the divisiveness of the discussion.
I first came to Miami in 1975 when I joined Cordis Corp. in a new executive program that sent me to California, Tokyo, and later to Sydney for five-years, before returning to Miami in 1990. I mention this because ethnic tensions in Miami have always simmered below the surface, with some Grovites believing a sense of entitlement versus other residents and in 2000 had the county push the Mosaic initiative trying to bring the community together after the explosive Elian Gonzalez affair. That had rednecks with confederate flags and Black people shouting “F…” the Cubans,” and was caught by The Miami Herald in a photo back then.
The commission is trying to keep the Grove a tight knit community with very vocal residents in one district instead of three separate districts. The appointed redistricting attorney Miguel De Grandy was told to try to accommodate keeping the Grove together. That has commissioner Joe Carollo’s home in north Grove on Morris Lane in his current district 3, rather than rent a home in Little Havana with his wife. De Grandy is a major lobbyist at the county lost a state house seat by one vote, years ago. He noted district -2 that includes the “Grove is 48.7 percent Hispanic,” after the most recent 2020 Census stated the attorney based on the census data.
Carollo bought his home in 2001 for $574,000 and that was a surprise for the WDR, because after his divorce, where he threw an object at his wife and was charged, and after the divorce hearings and settlement which I attended. He remarked he was “worth more dead, than alive,” he told the press. Which makes me wonder how he afforded the property especially after his subsequent numerous divorces. Further, while Carollo made wild accusations about where Russell lives and his personal finances, being interpreted wrong and had Russell saying he has lived in his home for decades and there was nothing “nefarious,” about the deal since his family had expanded and more room was needed for his family
What about the annual Miami-Dade Domestic Violence Annual Board report?
The domestic violence trust has opened a new 60-bed shelter in South Miami and with Covid domestic violence cases have been on the rise. Further, there is new software that allows a caller to use facetime if approved and is great for prosecuting domestic violence.
>>> Clean-up efforts of Biscayne Bay kick into high gear with “120,000,” homes on septic tanks countywide, county commissioners “want to see specifics, one by one,’ since the first Bay study in 2015.
On a different note: than above. The county’s Biscayne Bay task force is revving up its efforts since the first study of the bay in 2015. Funding finally has been surging from the state and federal government. The one main polluter of Biscayne Bay is the est. 120,000 septic tanks countywide and converting septic to sewer can cost up to $20,000, and the desire is to reduce that amount to around $1,000, and there is new septic tank technology, that uses baffles in the interior of the tanks but the bay is at a tipping point say environmentalists and chair Commissioner Daniele Cohens Higgins, wants to see “specifics,” and true goals and time lines. Further, one of the first conversion areas is Schenley Park area in commissioner Rebeca Sosa’s district next year, after years of delays.
Past WDR: What about the issue of homeless children in Miami-Dade?
The point count recently was 947 kids on streets since this most recent count? “The count found 49 percent were ’homeless the first time,” 65 percent were non-Hispanic, and 180 people were moved into new homes and the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust participated in the 100 Day challenge and above is some of the results I asked trust chair Ron book about the program discussed at the trust meeting Friday and he responded: “The 100 Day Challenge relates to ending youth homelessness, and we were 1 of 5 Communities identified nationally. We accepted the challenge, and there are now 15 Communities in the Country that have accepted it. We are considered probably if not the most successful to complete the one hundred Day Challenge ranking in the top 2 or 3.”
We did things to create new best practices, and if you had the opportunity, which you may already have seen the video from the Chicago Summit, you would see that the other four that participated in this 100 Day Challenge were truly taken by our efforts, commitment, and our success. We blew our goals out of the water, and we will continue to push, and pursue every youth that are on our streets until we have everyone out, and taken care of,” wrote the long-time chair.https://www.wesh.com/article/desmond-meade-on-time-100-speaks-to-what-this-country-is-all-about/27185500
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